Etymologies

From Latin causalis, from causa ("cause"); see cause. (Wiktionary)

Examples

Now, while our _idea of God_ thus tells us that God has in his hand all causal chains in the world, and its million-threaded web in constant omni-surveying presence and in all-controlling omnipotence, our reflection on the _world_ and its substance and course also leads us from the _a posteriori_ starting-point of analytical investigation precisely to the same result; it even leads us to a still more concrete conception of this idea -- namely, to the result, that not only the _causal chains, in their totality and in their web_, but also _all single links_ of these chains,

And yet the notion that socioeconomic factors being the main causal relationship to terrorism exists in higher academia, notably from this Stanford University thesis in 2002 which asserts that “certain socioeconomic and demographic factors seem to help create this kind of terrorism and make it easier to recruit terrorists”.

This is called causal refuge; you are taking refuge in the Three Jewels that are established in the mental continuums of others—placing your confidence especially in the cessations of suffering and the spiritual states they have actualized to overcome their suffering.